..This study explores the potential health gains and equity impact if a set of priority interventions for mothers and under fives were scaled up to reach national universal coverage targets for MDGs in Tanzania...

..to answer the following research question: What are the relative effects of different classes of antihypertensive drugs in reducing the incidence of cardiovascular disease outcomes for healthy people at risk of cardiovascular disease?..

..Studies are needed to increase our understanding of how GPs' attitudes influence their use of guidelines. In this study we explored GPs' attitudes to guidelines...

Further benefits by early start of HIV treatment in low income countries: Survival estimates of early versus deferred antiretroviral therapy

Kjell Arne JohanssonUniversity of Bergen, Department of Public Health and Centre for International Health, Research Group in Global Health Ethics, Economics and Culture, PB 7804, 5020 Bergen, NorwayAIDS Res Ther 7:3. 2010

..Since low income countries have many constraints to full coverage of HAART, this study provides input to a more transparent debate regarding where to draw explicit eligibility criteria during further scale up of HAART...

A note on Brock: prioritarianism, egalitarianism and the distribution of life years

..Such information would contribute to further synthesis of the approach...

End-of-life decisions as bedside rationing. An ethical analysis of life support restrictions in an Indian neonatal unit

I MiljeteigGlobal Health Ethics, Economics and Culture, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care and Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayJ Med Ethics 36:473-8. 2010

..Is withholding of life-saving treatment for children born between 28 and 32 GAW acceptable from an ethical perspective?..

Impact of ethics and economics on end-of-life decisions in an Indian neonatal unit

Ingrid MiljeteigDivision of Medical Ethics, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care and Global Health Ethics, Economics and Culture, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayPediatrics 124:e322-8. 2009

..The aim of this article was to describe how providers in an Indian NICU reach life-or-death treatment decisions...

Physicians' use of guidelines and attitudes to withholding and withdrawing treatment for extremely premature neonates in Norway

Ingrid MiljeteigDivision of Medical Ethics, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, NorwayActa Paediatr 96:825-9. 2007

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HIV priorities and health distributions in a rural region in Tanzania: a qualitative study

..The objective of this article is to explore experiences of HIV priority decisions, at what levels these decisions are made and how they might influence the distribution of health benefits in a high-endemic region in Tanzania...

A W CappelenDivision for Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Kalfarveien 31, N 5018 Bergen, NorwayJ Med Ethics 31:476-80. 2005

..The aim of the article is to propose a plausible interpretation of liberal egalitarianism with respect to responsibility and health care and assess it against reasonable counter-arguments...

National HIV treatment guidelines in Tanzania and Ethiopia: are they legitimate rationing tools?

K A JohanssonDivision of Medical Ethics, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, PB 7804, 5020 Bergen, NorwayJ Med Ethics 34:478-83. 2008

..To provide an ethical analysis of whether the Ethiopian and Tanzanian national HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines can be considered legitimate and fair rationing tools...

Availability and access in modern obstetric care: a retrospective population-based study

..To assess the availability of obstetric institutions, the risk of unplanned delivery outside an institution and maternal morbidity in a national setting in which the number of institutions declined from 95 to 51 during 30 years...

Whose priorities count? Comparison of community-identified health problems and Burden-of-Disease-assessed health priorities in a district in Uganda

Lydia KapiririCentre for International Health, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, NorwayHealth Expect 5:55-62. 2002

..The secondary aim was to explore the potential for using qualitative participatory methodologies as tools for planing and priority setting...

Availability, distribution and use of emergency obstetric care in northern Tanzania

..Studies indicate that modern general practitioners, both in Norway and in other countries are uncomfortable with the gatekeeper role, but there is little knowledge about how general practitioners experience rationing in practice...

Rights to specialized health care in Norway: a normative perspective

Ole Frithjof NorheimJ Law Med Ethics 33:641-9. 2005

Responsibility, fairness and rationing in health care

Alexander W CappelenDepartment of Economics, University of Oslo and the Norwegian School of Economics, NorwayHealth Policy 76:312-9. 2006

..The objective of this article is, drawing on normative political theory, to sketch an argument that assigns a limited but significant role to individual responsibility in the design of the health-care system...

Priority setting at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels in Canada, Norway and Uganda

..The appeals procedure remains well known among the public. Doctors should make themselves familiar with the criteria and the appeals procedure...

My job is to keep him alive, but what about his brother and sister? How Indian doctors experience ethical dilemmas in neonatal medicine

Ingrid MiljeteigDev World Bioeth 6:23-32. 2006

..There is a need for further research in this field, and for the development of guidelines on how to cope with differences in resources, and how to handle different patient groups' cultural and religious concerns...